CLAREMORE, Okla — Donna and Diana Donley live peacefully in the country in a house inherited from their parents. Dad passed in 2022, and Mom in 2020. The quiet of their home near Claremore is ...

Scam calls are smarter and more frequent than ever, but one targeted strategy can keep most of them from ever reaching you.

Last week Bramnick introduced a bill that would require telemarketers to provide customers with “the name and telephone number of the person on whose behalf the call is being made.” Should the bill ...

Every time your phone rings, there's a decent chance it's a telemarketer calling. How do telemarketers get your phone number, and what can you do about it?

U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a nationwide crackdown to stop companies from inundating people with billions of unwanted and illegal robocalls and telemarketing calls. Subscribe to read this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've all been there. An unfamiliar phone number pops up on your phone during an incoming call, and you hesitate to pick up, not ...

Is there anything more annoying than getting calls from telemarketers? We all get them, and many of us have fallen for one at some point in time. The simplest response is to just not answer calls from ...

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act lets you recover up to $500 for each violation of the do not call registry. Nathen Barton fought back against telemarketers, and made some money in the process.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern was a teenage high school dropout working at Civic Development Group (CDG), a telemarketing company that ...

A new state law aims to reduce the frequency of robocalls in New York, requiring telemarketers to immediately offer New Yorkers the choice of opting out of their company's unsolicited phone calls. Gov ...

Like many of you, I've been following the controversy and court cases surrounding the US Federal Trade Commission's creation of a Do Not call List. This list, for those of you not attuned to the issue ...

BROWN: Those spam calls from an unknown number always trying to sell you something. UNIDENTIFIED TELEMARKETER: Hi. I'm with Rian Real Estate - R-I-A-N. Corporate office in Dallas, Texas. BROWN: Most ...